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Western Australia today became the second state in the country to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.
The parties’ attention will be on the election end game as campaigning enters its final week, but 10 December also marks Human Rights Day as a chance to look back at a bitterly polarised Britain in 2019.
John McDonnell has admitted he is "worried" that his party's handling of anti-semitism could play a role in costing them the election.
Berkshire based adoption agency found to have discriminated against a British born couple of Sikh Indian heritage.
Jeremy Corbyn plans to "rig" a second Brexit referendum by giving EU citizens the right to vote in it, Boris Johnson has claimed.
Jeremy Corbyn has said he is "very sorry" for the way Labour has handled anti-semitism in the party.
Chair of the Bar Council, Amanda Pinto QC Inaugural Speech 2020.
Boris Johnson has rejected suggestions he is exploiting the London Bridge terror attack to help his election campaign.
Boris Johnson claimed he is part of a "new, one-Nation Conservative administration" as he faced a grilling on the Tories' near-decade in office in the wake of the London Bridge attack.
Jeremy Corbyn has said those convicted of terror offences should “not necessarily” serve their full prison sentences.
A bitter election row has erupted in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack as Boris Johnson demanded tougher sentences for perpetrators and Jeremy Corbyn accused the Conservatives of wanting security "on the cheap".
The Prime Minister is returning to Downing Street after police confirmed they were treating an incident in London Bridge as a terror attack.
Police have launched an investigation into a Tory general election candidate who accused his Sikh Labour rival of "talking through his turban".
Boris Johnson has apologised for the “hurt and offence” caused by Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.
Boris Johnson has strenuously denied the NHS is “on the table” in UK-US trade talks as the Tories accused Jeremy Corbyn of “conspiracy theory-fuelled nonsense”.
Jeremy Corbyn once again refused to apologise to the Jewish community over Labour’s anti-semitism crisis as a senior shadow Cabinet minister attacked a journalist for asking him to.
A major group representing Hindus living in the UK has accused Labour of becoming "a racist party under Jeremy Corbyn".
Parliament’s new bullying and harassment helpline received nearly four times the number of calls expected in its first year in operation.
The National Chair of the Police Federation has called for a review of what he has called a ‘growing mental health crisis’ as new figures revealed police officers dealt with 28% more cases in the last four years.
Tony Blair is urging people to vote tactically and prevent either Labour or the Conservatives getting a majority – saying they both “pose a risk it would be unwise for the country to take”.
Today the Bar Council has launched their 2019 Manifesto.
Richard Atkins QC gave the keynote speech at this year’s Bar Conference: The Modern Bar; our work and role.
Athena Markides, Chair of the Bar Council’s Young Barristers’ Committee gave a speech to the Bar and Young Bar Conference 2019 on the 23 November. Find her full speech here.
The Bar Council represents more than 16,500 barristers in the UK. The Chair of the Bar Richard Atkins QC outlines their key asks for a new Government.